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Create a monorepo using PNPM workspace

Vinodh Kumar on August 15, 2023

Objective To create a mono repo using the PNPM package manager and its workspace feature. The main advantage of the PNPM workspace when...

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Wolz • Oct 18 '23

Amazinnngggg, I learned a lot

Germán Castro Montes • Mar 1 '24

This article is gold. Thanks man

Garen • Aug 15 '23

awesome article ! I learn how to config a monorepo project

worm • Nov 11 '24

太棒了非常规范的提交学到了很多

jesusvallez • Nov 3 '24

Thank you so much for your article, it is amazing.

I followed your instructions to set up and configure my pnpm monorepo, but I'm encountering an issue using the "common" package in the webapp. When I try to use it, TypeScript can't resolve the path. However, I downloaded your repository, installed it, and it works perfectly, so I believe there might be a specific issue with my setup

jesusvallez • Nov 3 '24

My mistake! I copied this:

  "main": "./dist/common.js",
  "types": "./dist/main.d.ts",

into the main package.json file, but I should have added it to packages/common/package.json.

Vinodh Kumar • Nov 3 '24

Cool :)

WulfP • Jan 14 '25

Great article!!!

Only one question remains open:

Is it possible to have main.ts in watch-mode with hmr-updates while developing? That would be really helpful!

And maybe -e should be added after echo where .prettierrc.json is created.

WulfP • Jan 14 '25

I found out, that this does the job:
"watch": "concurrently \"tsc --watch\" \"vite build --watch\"",
in ./packages/common/package.json and then (after pnpm add -D concurrently):
pnpm --filter common watch.

But is there a better solution, especially when common grows?

rui peng • Nov 14 '25

致敬！

Hichoi-Dev • Oct 2 '23

I really thank you. Very clean and well detailed article.

Daniel Rodríguez Rivero • Oct 15 '25

Thank you. There are not many references about how to configure eslint 9 in a mono-repo. I don't know where you got the information from, because in the eslint docs there is not a single reference.